Baseball comes in loud and clear on my iPhone.

As a child growing up in Orange County, California, I would drift to sleep every summer night, listening to the dulcet tones of legendary Dodgers broadcaster, Vin Scully. My bedroom usually had some sort of desktop radio with two dials – one for tuning, one for volume. Those radios were so lo-tech, they didn’t even have an auto-off feature. Each night my mother would come in to the room and turn it off before heading to bed herself.

A few nights ago, nearly two generations and a whole continent removed from my southern California bedroom, I again laid in my bed listening to the dulcet tones of Vin Scully painting the aural picture of actions by the LaLa-land nine. This time, however, I was also watching the action, streaming live on my iPhone.

You read that correctly – streaming live on my iPhone.

MLB.com recently began streaming live games over their At Bat iPhone application, just two games per day for now, but soon the whole daily schedule, and the entire post- season, according to the MLB.com Website. Users can now watch the full broadcast of their favorite team’s games, live on their iPhones

You might be thinking “Yeah, I need the 3G or 3GS for that.” Actually, not the case at all. I still have an original iPhone. I did apply the new 3.0 update, and purchased the latest version of the At Bat application, however.

And for all the grief pored over the Interwebs regarding AT&T’s Edge Network, it performed admirably as I watched the Cubs against the White Sox from the mall food court.

Let me say THAT again. I was sitting in the mall food court, watching the Cubs and White Sox streaming live to my iPhone, while connected to the Edge Network. There is one caveat. The stream would stall about every two minutes, for about ten seconds. Not great, but much better than expected.

The actual progression from radio broadcast to iPhone stream has accelerated greatly over the last few years. Six years ago, having all MLB games available on a cable or satellite network’s baseball package was thought to be pretty spiffy. A couple years later, the newly launched MLB.com offered radio streams of all MLB games for $14. Listening to Vin on the computer became a new nightly ritual for this New England resident.

Last season, I passed on the chance to watch video streams of games because of my aging computer. Thanks to this year’s new MacBook, however, the 2009 season is unfolding in a separate window on my video screen, simultaneously, while surfing, blogging, IMing, and texting.

And now, the At Bat application brings live video streaming to the iPhone. How do you top that?

After 40 years, Vin has never sounded as good as he does through a set of iconic white iPhone/iPod earbuds. Broadband internet has made the whole slate of any sport’s games available at very reasonable costs, through both the computer, and mobile devices.

It kind of makes you wonder how we are going to watch games ten years from now. Doesn’t it?